Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.