Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.