The Good Things Of Life Are Not

I Hate A Man Who Swallows [his Food], Affecting Not To Know What He Is Eating. I Suspect His Taste In Higher Matters.

Boys Are Capital Fellows In Their Own Way, Among Their Mates; But They Are Unwholesome Companions For Grown People.

Think What You Would Have Been Now, If Instead Of Being Fed With Tales And Old Wives' Fables In Childhood, You Had Been Crammed With Geography And Natural History!

Merit, God Knows, Is Very Little Rewarded.

Man Is A Gaming Animal. He Must Always Be Trying To Get The Better In Something Or Other.