Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.