Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.