People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

The harder I work the more I live.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.