The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.