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.'

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

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

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!