Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.