The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.