Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.