An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.