If There Be Any One Habit Which

Assuredly, Meeting After Absence, Is One Of - Ah, No! - It Is Life's Most Delicious Feeling.

It Is Said That Ridicule Is The Test Of Truth; But It Is Never Applied Except When We Wish To Deceive Ourselves - When If We Cannot Exclude The Light, We Would Fain Draw The Curtain Before It. The Sneer Springs Out Of The Wish To Deny; And Wretched Must That State Of Mind Be, That Wishes To Take Refuge In Doubt.

Doubts, Like Facts, Are Stubborn Things.

Curiosity And Courtesy Are Very Often At Variance.

English People ... Never Speak, Excepting In Cases Of Fire Or Murder, Unless They Are Introduced.