A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.