Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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.
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
I hate babies. They're so human.