The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.