He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.