When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.