Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.