A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!