The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.