All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.