O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.