It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?