“There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.”

“i find nothing more depressing than optimism.”

“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

“Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.”

“One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.”

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”

“Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.”

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”