Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.