All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?