We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.