But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.