As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.