All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Property is organized robbery.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.