The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.