The Bed of Procrustes

Mathematics is to knowledge what an artificial hand is to the real one; some amputate to replace.

If you know, in the morning, what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead—the more precision, the more dead you are.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters

I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it.

You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired.

What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.

CHANCE, SUCCESS, HAPPINESS, AND STOICISM