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

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

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

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.