Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.