Men do not attract what they want but what they are.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning or it's going to disappear completely.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound, its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Speed it seems to me provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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