A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

My reputation grows with every failure.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.