The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.