Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. If there are no cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.