It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.