The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.