Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.