It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.