It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Silence is the wit of fools.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.