Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.