Thirteen
Always give your fellow creature credit for good intentions. Do not you, though sometimes mistakenly, always act for the best? You know you do. And are you alone among mortals in rectitude?
Fourteen
There is no such case as the average case, just as there is no such man as the average man. Every man and every man’s case is special.
Fifteen
Outside the department of fiction there are two kinds of authors—those who want to write because they have something definite to say, and those who want something definite to say because they can write.
Sixteen
A lover is one who deludes himself; a journalist is one who deludes himself and other people.
Seventeen
Although a very greedy eater of literature, I can only enjoy reading when I have little time for reading. Give me three hours of absolute leisure with nothing to do but read, and I instantly become almost incapable of the act.