You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.