He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.