We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.