It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

Writing is the supreme solace.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

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.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.