When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

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

The only people who never fail are those who never try

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

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

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.