The Old Fellow Seemed To Spot Deceit

A Great Deal Has Been Written About The Forthrightness Of The Moderns Shocking The Victorians, But There Is No Shock Like The One Which The Forthrightness Of The Victorians Can Give A Modern.

Good Doctors Get A Mechanic's Pleasure In Making You Tick Over.

The Nicest People Fall In Love Indiscriminately ... While Under The Influence Of That Pre-eminently Selfish Lunacy They May Make The Most Outrageous Demands Upon Their Friends With No Other Excuse Than Their Painful Need.

The Relationship Between The Two Men Was Something Of A Miracle In Itself. It Was A Cordiality Based, Apparently, On Complete Non-comprehension Cemented By A Deep Mutual Respect For The Utterly Unknown. No Two Men Saw Less Eye To Eye And The Result Was Unexpected Harmony, As If A Dog And A Fish Had Mysteriously Become Friends And Were Proud Each Of The Other's Remarkable Dissimilarity To Himself.

People Don't Alter. They May With Enormous Difficulty Modify Themselves, But They Never Really Change.