We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.