If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.