Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.