It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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

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.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.