Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.