Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.