Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!