The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.