We look with pleasure even on our shadows.
It is particularly inconvenient to have a long nose—especially if you are in company with Irishmen after dinner.
Weak-minded men are obstinate; those of a robust intellect are firm.
Bear-baiting has gone down very much of late. The best exhibitions of that manly and rational amusement take place nightly in the House of Commons.
When you are invited to a drinking-party you do not treat your host well if you do not eat at least six salt herrings before you sit down to his table. I have never known this to fail in ensuring a pleasant evening.