Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

"There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets."

Her frocks are built in Paris but she wears them with a strong English accent.

"I believe I take precedence,' he said coldly; 'you are merely the club Bore: I am the club Liar.'"