“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and…” — 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.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.