A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.