The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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.