The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

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.

I hate babies. They're so human.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.