Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.