She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.