Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.