The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.