The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.