If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.