Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

Everyone is born a genius.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.