Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.