Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.