Jerome Klapka Jerome

The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter

You are no longer the slow, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature

But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward

We asked this heavenly messenger (as we discovered him afterwards to be) if he knew of any lonely house, whose occupants were few and feeble (old ladies or paralysed gentlemen preferred), who could be easily frightened into giving up their beds for the night to three desperate men

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Thus does unjust suspicion follow even the most blameless for, as the poet says, "Who shall escape calumny

grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them - the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind - should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not

-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are

He was exhibited for three weeks afterwards in the Town Hall, under a glass case

Montmorency, who had evinced great interest in the proceedings throughout, strolled away with an earnest and thoughtful air, reappearing, a few minutes afterwards, with a dead water- rat in his mouth, which he evidently wished to present as his contribution to