The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.