Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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

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

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.