What is the best advice to give a justice of the peace? Peace.
Who commits the greatest abominations? Nations.
Who is the greatest terrifier? Fire.
Why is Joseph Gillott a very bad man? Because he wishes to accustom the public to steel (steal) pens, and then tries to persuade them that they do (right) write.
Ever eating, ever cloying,
Never finding full repast,
All devouring, all destroying,
Till it eats the world at last?
Fire.
What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world? Ink.
When is a sailor not a sailor? When he’s a-board.
If you drive a nail in a board and clinch it on the other side, why is it like a sick man? Because it is in firm.
Why is the steeple of St. Paul’s church like Ireland? Because there is a bell fast (Belfast) in it.