There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

International sport is war without shooting.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.