A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all things by making a fool of himself.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.