It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.