On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

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

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.