Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
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