“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

To a great mind, nothing is little.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A dog reflects the family life.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

A little weirdness is enough to enjoy life & a little ignorance to avoid the problems.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

Ignorance never set you free. 

It hurts when your effort is ignored.

The distractions that stop us from our dreams need to be ignored.

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.