Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.