The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
We can only know others by ourselves.
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.