“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”