Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.