After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.