
Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.

It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

You may have come on no bicycle," he said, "but that does not say that you know everything.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it?

For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks
the herbs and the plenteous fruits ...

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

Another day gone and no jokes.

In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Is it about a bicycle?

I am completely half afraid to think.

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.