October
One
A most curious and useful thing to realise is that one never knows the impression one is creating on other people.
Two
At seventy men begin to be separated from their fellow-creatures. At eighty they are like islets sticking out of a sea. At eighty-five, with their trembling and deliberate speech, they are the abstract voice of human wisdom. They gather wisdom with amazing rapidity in the latter years, and even their folly is wise then.
Three
In its essence all fiction is wildly improbable, and its fundamental improbability is masked by an observance of probability in details.
Four
Only reviewers have a prejudice against long novels.