There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.