At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.