Never do anything hastily: remember it is the last cup of tea which is the strongest.
Be not too prodigal: the kettle when too full puts out the fire.
A little scandal is to tea what an olive is to wine.
Butter not your bread on both sides, lest in your old age you be left without bread to butter.
It is a wise washerwoman who knows her own twankay.
Measure your green according to your black.
Happy is he who can take the rough with the smooth—the strong hyson with the fine pearl gunpowder.
Delays are dangerous: remember the hottest toast will get cold by standing.
REASONS FOR CLOSING ATTORNEYS' OFFICES
AT SIX.
The lawyers' clerks, having been bitten by the linendrapers' shopmen, have caught the fashionable mania for "shutting up at six," in order to give them time for that mental cultivation which filling up writs, attending before the Master, and copying bills of costs, are not likely to facilitate.