The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.