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

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

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

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

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