I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.