Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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