One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.