You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
H. L. MenckenThe difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
H. L. MenckenBy profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
H. L. Mencken