When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.