I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Happiness is never grand.

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.