When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Make your vacation your vocation.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.