A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.