The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.