We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

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

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.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.