He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

There's no police like Holmes.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.