I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Whatever interests is interesting.

Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.