Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?