By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
A person preaches well that lives well.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
