The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I'd learned my lesson.