Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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.