The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.