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

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

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

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

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

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.