I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

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

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.