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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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

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.

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.

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.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.