The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.