After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.