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

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.