There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.