She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

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

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

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

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.