If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.