Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.