“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”

“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.”

“Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.”

“Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.”

“All wealth is the product of labor.”

“To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.”

“There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.”

“Never find fault with the absent.”

“Never find fault with the absent.”

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”