Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Assumptions are dangerous things.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.