The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.