There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.