“The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have Watson too.”

“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds. ”

“If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”

“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”

“Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.”