Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.