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 classified like the thirty-two winds, and their names formed in a simliar mannerfor instance, Bread-Bread-Reputation or Reputation-Reputation-Bread, and so on.

What! to dispute about anything you must first understand it? I maintain that in a dispute at least one party must have no notion of what it is about; and that for a so-called animated dispute of the first order neither side must understand the matter at all, nay, they must not even know what they are saying.

“How goes it?” asked the blind man of the lame. “As you see,” replied the latter, “quite passably.” Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it.

In a country where lovers’ eyes shone in the dark you would need no lamps o’ nights.

Harlequin is contemplating suicide, and after finding something to say against every other way decides at last to tickle himself to death.

Philosophers have always preferred to describe their hypochondria or their eye-diseases rather than their head-diseases.

When we see how titles are deteriorating in value, we might almost think that the world’s stock of