If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

Nearly all novels are too long.