Ignorance never settles a question.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.