Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.