What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.