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

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.

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.