A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Big-endians and small-endians.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.