The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

Nothing is Improbable until it moves into the Past Tense.

Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home when it comes to Wearing what you like.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.