When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.