His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.