This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.