Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.