There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

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

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.