You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.