“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.”

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

“Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.”

“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”