Nearly All Bookish People Are Snobs, And

Any Change, Even A Change For The Better, Is Always Accompanied By Drawbacks And Discomforts.

Prepare To Live By All Means, But For Heaven's Sake Do Not Forget To Live.

Every Scene, Even The Commonest, Is Wonderful, If Only One Can Detach Oneself, Casting Off All Memory Of Use And Custom, And Behold It (as It Were) For The First Time; In Its Right, Authentic Colors; Without Making Comparisons. Cherish And Burnish This Faculty Of Seeing Crudely, Simply, Artlessly, Ignorantly; Of Seeing Like A Baby Or A Lunatic, Who Lives Each Moment By Itself And Tarnishes By The Present No Remembrance Of The Past.

If You've Ever Really Been Poor You Remain Poor At Heart All Your Life. I've Often Walked When I Could Very Well Afford To Take A Taxi Because I Simply Couldn't Bring Myself To Waste The Shilling It Would Cost.

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.