Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.