The boxes which govern the world are the cartridge-box, the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the band-box.
There are certain things upon which even a wise man must be content to be ignorant. “I cannot fiddle,” said Themistocles, “but I can take a city.”
Sir Thomas Overbury said of a man who boasted of his ancestry, that he was like a potato—the best thing belonging to him was under the ground.
“Go and see Carlini” (the famous Neapolitan comedian), said a physician to a patient, who came to consult him upon habitual depression of spirits. “I am Carlini,” said the man.
The words Abstemiously and Facetiously contain all the vowels in consecutive order.