We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

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.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.