There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.