We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

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