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

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

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.