Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.