"If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the gut… - William Somerset Maugham

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.

It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who had seemed essential proved unnecessary.