Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Idling has always been my strong point.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.