Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.