The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.