The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.