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

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

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.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

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

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.