"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."

"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds."

"Le peu que je sais, c'est ?? mon ignorance que je le dois. (The little I know I owe to my ignorance.)"

"Vows were ever brokers to defiling."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."