If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.