He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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

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

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.