Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"