HE man who would Charybdis shun
Must make a cautious movement,
Or else he'll into Scylla run—
Which would be no improvement.
The fish that left the frying-pan,
On feeling that desire, sir,
Took little by their change of plan,
When floundering in the fire, sir.
Lord Neaves, Songs and Verses.
HE flattery which is most pleasing to really beautiful or decidedly ugly women is that which is addressed to the intellect.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to his Son.
OHNSON'S folly—to be candid—was a wild desire to treat
Every able male white citizen he met upon the street;
And there being several thousand—but this subject why pursue?
'Tis with Perkins, and not Johnson, that to-day we have to do.
Bret Harte, Complete Works.
