Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

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

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

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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.