1. “Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.”
2. “The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”
3. “One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.”
4. “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
5. “Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.”
6. “No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.”
7. “Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”
8. “Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
9. “When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.”
10. “Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
11. “The historian records, but the novelist creates.”
12. “Only a writer who has a sense of evil can make goodness readable.”
13. “One must be fond of people and trust if one to make a mess of life.”
14. “The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
15. “The armor of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
16. “Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
17. “Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.”
18. “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
19. “History develops, art stands still.”
20. “Unless we remember we cannot understand.”
21. “To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
22. “One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
23. “Reverence is fatal to literature.”
24. “Life never gives us what we ant at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
25. “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
26. “Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.”
27. “There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.”
28. “Human beings have great chance in the novel.”
29. “The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”
30. “Books have to be read it is is the only way of discovering what they contain.”
