My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is