It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.