I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.