Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.