A Great Statesman, Like A Good Housekeeper,

The Need To Express Oneself In Writing Springs From A Mal-adjustment To Life, Or From An Inner Conflict Which The Adolescent (or The Grown Man) Cannot Resolve In Action. Those To Whom Action Comes As Easily As Breathing Rarely Feel The Need To Break Loose From The Real, To Rise Above, And Describe It... I Do Not Mean That It Is Enough To Be Maladjusted To Become A Great Writer, But Writing Is, For Some, A Method Of Resolving A Conflict, Provided They Have The Necessary Talent.

Learning Is Nothing Without Cultivated Manners, But When The Two Are Combined In A Woman, You Have One Of The Most Exquisite Products Of Civilization.

No One Can Be Profoundly Original Who Does Not Avoid Eccentricity.

Style Is The Outcome Of Constraint.

We Don't Go To School To Learn, But To Be Soaked In The Prejudices Of Our Class, Without Which We Should Be Useless And Unhappy.