To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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

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.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.