The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.