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.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.