Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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.

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