Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.