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

It was a little skirmish across a century.

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

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

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.

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.