He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.