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.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

Nearly all novels are too long.

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?

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

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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.