"A serjeant is a soldier with a halbert, and a drummer is a soldier with a drum."

"In case of private jurisdictions, the Court has inclined not to intermeddle."

"The point now before us is a settled case, and therefore there is no need to enter into arguments about it."

"The custom of the city of London is a matter of fact."

"To the memory of Sir Thomas Denison, Knt., this monument was erected by his afflicted widow. He was an affectionate h…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."