This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.