"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance"

"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'...."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

"We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours."

"Everyone woman has a flaw. If it is not on the exterior it's in her head."

"The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it."

"The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking."