Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.