Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.