“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.

Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

That’s an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.