Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.