There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.