As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.