That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.