Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.