In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.
The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.
Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a fr...
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Onc...
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.