ISTRUST all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield, Maxims.
BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY.
HEN man and wife at odds fall out,
Let Syntax be your tutor;
'Twixt masculine and feminine,
What should one be but neuter?
Anon.
Y friend the late Sam Phillips one day met Douglas Jerrold, and told him he had seen, the day before, Payne Collier looking wonderfully gay and well—quite an evergreen. "Ah," said Jerrold, "he may be evergreen, but he's never read." On my repeating this to Hicks, he smiled and said, "Now that's what I call 'ready wit.' "
J. C. Young, Diary.