“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“The vices of some men are magnificent”