[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Cruelty is the only sin.