The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.