“Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much”

“Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence”

“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature”