1. “Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.”
2. “Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down.”
3. “Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.”
4. “The happiest people in the world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.”
5. “There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people admit that they enjoy life.”
6. “To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to dog it is the last word in despair.”
7. “The greatest of all arts is the art of living together!”
8. “In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.”
9. “The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
10. “Real happiness is not dependent on external things.”
11. “If at first you don’t succeed, find out i the loser gets anything.”
12. “There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.”
13. “I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
14. “One of the secret of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.”
15. “The happiest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
16. “My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.”
17. “At a certain age some people’s minds close up; they lie on their intellectual fat.”
18. “Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.”
19. “Whenever it is in any way possible, ever boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
20. “Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment”
21. “You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.”
22. “A cat pours his body on the floor like water. it is restful just to see him.”
23. “Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.”
24. “The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.”
25. “The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.”
26. “A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”
27. “The fear of life is the favourite disease of the 20th century.”
28. “Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.”
29. “Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.”
30. “A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it it given with sincere respect and admiration.”
