If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Time is the best killer.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.