He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.