the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.