Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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

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

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 believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.