One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness.
I’d sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It’s better to know one’s robbed than to think one’s going to be murdered.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.