The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.