Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.