Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

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.'