I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

I'm so bored with it all.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.