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The first condition of immortality is death.

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

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Procrastination is the thief of time.

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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