If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.