Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

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

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.