"To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible…"

"Who's up ?" inquired Burke of a friend at the door, "Oh, no one," says Paddy, "tho' Pitt's on the floor."

"A little garden little Jowett made, And fenced it with a little palisade; A little taste hath little Dr. Jowett; This…"

"Here lies a Doctor of Divinity, Who was a Fellow too of Trinity; He knew as much about Divinity As other Fellows do o…"

"I went to Frankfort and got drunk With that most learn'd Professor Brunck: I went to Wortz and got more drunken With …"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm. When Athens had decaye…"

"In The Waste Land Mr. Eliot has shown that he can at moments write real blank verse; but that is all. For the rest he…"

"My dream is of a British statesman who could say to his countrymen: "You are sick of war, weary of entanglements. The…"