Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.