There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.