Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

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

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.