Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?