Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

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

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

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.