I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Reward is its own virtue.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.