"I think the average woman is rather foolish."

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."

"The compound of the two, the artistic and the practical, is the most powerful weapon in the world."

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can then dispense with artifi…"

"The white man's burden is to civilize the savage races; it is a duty laid upon us by God."