It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
From W. Somerset Maugham
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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