Maurice Baring

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”

“Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something of yourself.”

“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.”

“When you are young you believe that you will be happy, and when you are old you know that you are happy.”

“The Past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”

“There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.”