Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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