I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.