What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.