We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

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

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.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

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.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.