Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.