Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.