You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

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