“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the...

“But when oxidation nibbles more slowly – more delicately, like a tortoise – at the world around us, without a...

  “Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four...

  “Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider’s web?” “Oh, no,” said Dr. Dorian. “I...

  “Will you walk into my parlor?” said the Spider to the Fly; “‘Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever...