The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?