Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people . . .

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.