The only people who never fail are those who never try

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.