A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.