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

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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

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

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