“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.”
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”
“Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!”
“There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited”
“Books open the doors that others have closed on you.”