How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

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

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

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.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.