God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.