"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."

"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific."