People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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

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

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.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.