In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.