A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.