Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.