We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.