Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.