Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

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.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

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

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.