"People don't live nowadays --- they get about ten percent out of life."

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."

"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."

"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."

"DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback."

"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

"All cats are gray in the dark."