The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.