You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

The music paled like a candle and went out.

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.