If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.