There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

Love so seldom means happiness.

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

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

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

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