No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

You see in others who you are.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.