If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.