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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

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

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.