Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper

Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Take it from me — he's got the goods.