This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.