I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour. - John Buchan

I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.

They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.

You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revolution in Armenia or somewhere merely to see how it feels like to be a revolutionary. That's the damned thing about the artistic temperament.