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.

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.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

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.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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