The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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