Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.