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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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

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.

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

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