One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

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

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

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

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