Someone Who Can Write Aphorisms Should Not

A Man's Jealousy Is A Social Institution; A Woman's Prostitution Is An Instinct.

The Trouble With Germans Is Not That They Fire Shells, But That They Engrave Them With Quotations From Kant.

What Is A Historian? Someone Who Doesn't Write Well Enough To Work On A Daily.

This Is Something That I Cannot Get Over -- That A Whole Line Could Be Written By Half A Man, That A Work Could Be Built On The Quicksand Of A Character.

The Discovery Of The North Pole Is One Of Those Realities Which Could Not Be Avoided. It Is The Wages Which Human Perseverance Pays Itself When It Thinks That Something Is Taking Too Long. The World Needed A Discoverer Of The North Pole, And In All Areas Of Social Activity, Merit Was Less Important Here Than Opportunity.