"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess."

"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."

"It is a profound truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."