Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

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