The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.