Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.