If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.