The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.