I Finished My First Book Seventy-six Years

My Only Policy Is To Profess Evil And Do Good.

New Opinions Often Appear First As Jokes And Fancies, Then As Blasphemies And Treason, Then As Questions Open To Discussion, And Finally As Established Truths.

There Is No Accomplishment So Easy To Acquire As Politeness And None More Profitable.

I Have Never Thought Much Of The Courage Of A Lion Tamer. Inside The Cage He Is At Least Safe From Other Men. There Is Not Much Harm In A Lion. He Has No Ideals, No Religion, No Politics, No Chivalry, No Gentility; In Short, No Reason For Destroying Anything That He Does Not Want To Eat

If You Leave Your Art, The World Will Beat You Back To It. The World Has Not An Ambition Worth Sharing, Or A Prize Worth Handling.