Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.