Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

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

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.