Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes?
Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?
Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune – then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.
Disapproving of a person doesn’t keep you from having a pash for them.
Different kinds of danger suit different kinds of people.
Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
Death isn’t really so important as we make out.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Counting losers hasn’t been a great success.
Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price?
