The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

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

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.