There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.