The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.