A man of no conversation should smoke.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.