It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

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.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

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

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.