The vices of some men are magnificent.
The light that lies In woman's eyes.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.