“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.”

“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”

“It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.”

“He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.”