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

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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.

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.

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

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.