The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

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

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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

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

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

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