The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.