I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.