“Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.”
“Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.”
“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
“His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.”
“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”