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 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.

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.

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.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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