People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

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.

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.

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

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

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

It was a little skirmish across a century.