The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

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