[Y}outh is a hard judge. - John Buchan

He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

I loathed having to screw myself up to emergencies late in the day. Such things should take place in the early morning. It was like going over the top in France; I didn’t mind it so much when it happened during a drizzling dawn, when one was anyhow depressed and only half-awake, but I abominated an attack in the cold-blooded daylight, or in the dusk when one wanted to relax.