It is not possible to love and be wise.

The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.