Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

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.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.