If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.