It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.