Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.