... nothing is so boring as devotion.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.