O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Philosophy is for the few.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.