Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.