Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.