I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.