Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.