A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.