The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.