You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.