There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?