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

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

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.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

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

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.