If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.