Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood