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

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.