My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.