Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

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

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.