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.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.