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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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Age withers only the outside.

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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