The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.