“Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.”

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Every dog must have his day.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

A bottle of wine was good company.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

The company of the saints helps us to recognize that God never abandons us, so that we can live and bear witness to hope on this earth.

The greed of drug companies is out of control and the cost is human lives.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.