Things never come when they are expected.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
The rottenness comes from within.
lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.