Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.