They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.