The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.