When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Chess is one long regret.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.