if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Humility is the mother of giants.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.