The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?