Words are power-law distributed: the more frequent a word is, the more salient it is in most people's minds, and hence the more it gets used in the future.

Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

I told students never to start a story with someone waking up in bed, but here I go and I'm not even a cockroach.

There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes, as I am doing in this article.

It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating.

In order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling.

If a man must needs be conceited, it is certainly better that he should be conceited about some merits or talents that he does not really possess. For then his vanity remains more or less superficial; it remains a mere mistake of fact, like that of a man who thinks he inherits the royal blood or thinks he has an infallible system for Monte Carlo.