Society and the World

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?

She knows there’s no success like failure

She takes just like a woman, yes, she does

Fairest Isle, all isles excelling.

War is the trade of kings.

War is the trade of kings.

I am as free as nature first made man,

Nor is the people’s judgement always true:

A man so various that he seemed to be

But far more numerous was the herd of such

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

It is the unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

You know my methods. Apply them.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.