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.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.