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.

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

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

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

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.