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

In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

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.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.