The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

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

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.