If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

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.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.