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.

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

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

[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.

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

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

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