The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief.