Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

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

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.