If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

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 was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.