If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.