You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

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

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.