That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.