In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

The past is the father of the present.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.