Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

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.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.