"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism." — Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.