Twenty-two
The law of gravity is absurd and indefensible when you fall downstairs; but you obey it.
Twenty-three
It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made—so faithful is the public.
Twenty-four
That which has cost a sacrifice is always endeared.
Twenty-five
If literary aspirants genuinely felt that literature was the art of using words, bad, slipshod writing—writing that stultifies the thought and emotion which it is designed to render effective—would soon be a thing of the past. For they would begin at the beginning as apprentices to all other arts are compelled to. The serious student of painting who began his apprenticeship by trying to paint a family group, would be regarded as a lunatic. But the literary aspirant who begins with a novel is precisely that sort of lunatic, and the fact that he sometimes gets himself into print does not in the least mitigate his lunacy.
Twenty-six
In spite of all the differences which we have invented, mankind is a fellowship of brothers, overshadowed by insoluble and fearful mysteries, and dependent upon mutual goodwill and trust for the happiness it may hope to achieve.