The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

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

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.