Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.