She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.