I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.