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.

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

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

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

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

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

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