You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.