The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I am not now That which I have been.