I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.