Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.