I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).