Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.