"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him with their petty questions, and endeavor to pry into his private affairs. Commonly, if you are an honest man, they will want to know what you are doing in thei…"

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there…"