If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.