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

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.

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

Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

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

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