To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.