By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.