When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

What is reading but silent conversation.

When we commit our lives to the Lord, He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.

How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

Not funny ha ha, funny weird.

Buffalo Bill's defunct

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.