Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
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.