Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same.
Method and order, they are everything.
Men have courage – one knows that, but they are more easily deceived than women.
Memory is a wonderful gift. With it the past is never the past.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
Man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.
Man is an unoriginal animal.
Man is an animal very delicately balanced. He has one prime necessity – to survive. To advance too quickly is as fatal as to lag behind. He must survive! He must, perhaps, retain some of the old savagery, but he must not – no definitely he must not – deify it!
Man is always in danger – from traffic, from germs, from a hundred-and-one things. As well be killed one way as another. The moment you begin being careful of yourself – adopting as your motto ‘Safety First’ – you might as well be dead.
Man is a vain animal.
Luck, they say, goes in cycles.
