It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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