“It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.”

“There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day.You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”

“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”