Chamfort, Maximes.
H, how can a modest young man
E'er hope for the smallest progression—
The profession's already so full
Of lawyers so full of profession?
John Godfrey Saxe, Poems.
WAS speaking [to Charles Lamb] of my first brief, when he asked, "Did you not exclaim—'Thou great first cause, least understood'?"
Crabb Robinson, Diary.
YE-GLASS—a toy which enables a coxcomb to see others, and others to see that he is a coxcomb.