Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.