He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.