“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
“Tolerance is only another name for indifference.”
“People who ask for your criticism want only praise.”
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
“Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.”
“The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.”
“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.”
“I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.”
“I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.”
“Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.”
“Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.”
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
“The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.”
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.”
“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
“There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
“We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
“You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.”
“Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.”
“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.”
“Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”