I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.