“It is not impossible that in a real dream of sleep, some one may have created an antagonist who beat him in an argument to prove that he was awake.”

— Augustus De Morgan, Formal Logic, 1847

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.” — George Burns

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.” — Cicero

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.” — Talleyrand

“Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“The work will teach you how to do it.” — Estonian proverb

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” — Emerson

Asked what condition of man most deserves pity, Ben Franklin answered, “A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”