Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

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.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.