You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.