Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annualincome twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Throughout our life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

We must scrunch or be scrunched.