Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.