It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.