“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

When you listen, the benefit is two fold: You receive the necessary information, and you make the other person feel important.

Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.

When you become larger, the methods you use, the information you have, and people who assist you in attaining your goals should change.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.