Writers' Mottoes

Bernard Shaw warms himself at a fireplace on which this saying is carved:
“They say... What do they say?... Let them say...”

Ameen Rihani took as a constant motto in his life:
“Say your word and go your way.”

The poet Byron kept above his bed this maxim:
“Women are all angels; marriage alone is its devil.”

The English novelist John Galsworthy kept fixed upon his desk this sentence:
“I shall pass through this world but once... I shall never travel this road again... so let me do all the good that I can.”