We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.