Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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.

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

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.

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