The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.