Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

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.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.