How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.