How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

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