The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.