Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

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

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything