Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.