The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!