 Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. |
| The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. |
| When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. |
| A well begun is half ended. |
| Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. |
| As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. |
| One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. |
| All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. |
| I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. |
| Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. |
| Man, an animal that makes bargains. |
| People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. |
| I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. |
