I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.