It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.