Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.