We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.