Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, an…

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any…

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of no use to us.