"The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion."

"If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling."

"Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there."

"There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many."

"The more you know, the less you need to show."

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

"You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute"

"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."