I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.