It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.