
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have the nonsense respected.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

It is good to love the unknown.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.