The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.