The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.