News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.