Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.