All the talk used to be about doing people good, now it is about doing people

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.