There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.