You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?