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

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.