“I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.”

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”

“That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”

“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

“The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.”

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”