I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one