Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.