A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.