I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.