To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be