A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.