Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.