Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

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.

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

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

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

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely