Where facts are few, experts are many.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.