Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.