Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

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

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

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