There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.