"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”

“Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.”

“Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.”

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”

“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”

“Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.”