I have known several very genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary had deliquesced into some half dozen expressions.

All things fell into one of two great categories, -- FAST or SLOW.

Man's chief end was to be a BRICK.

When the great calamities of life overtook their friends, these last were spoken of as being a GOOD DEAL CUT UP.

Nine-tenths of human existence were summed up in the single word, BORE.