Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.