I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.