If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.