Lever Quotes

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.