Nothing any good isn't hard.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.