UNSFORD. Travelling is a great trial of people's inability to live together.
Ellesmere. Yes. Lavater says that you do not know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him; but I think a long journey with him will do.
Arthur Helps, Friends in Council.
ON AN ALDERMAN.
HAT he was born it cannot be denied;
He ate, drank, slept, talk'd politics, and died.
John Cunningham (1729-1773).
T a large dinner party at Jerdan's, one of the guests indulged in some wonderful accounts of his shooting. The number of birds he had killed, and the distances at which he had brought them down, were extraordinary. Hood quietly remarked,—
"What he hit is history,
What he missed is mystery."