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

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.