Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.