In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.