Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.