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

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.

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

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.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.