There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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.

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.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.