Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.