"Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed."

"Always ding dinging Dame Grundy into my ears - What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?"

"Handy, jun. Zounds, the room's in a blaze! Sir Abel. Don't say so, Bob. Handy, jun. What's to be done? Where's your f…"

"I eat well, and I drink well, and I sleep well—but that's all."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."

"Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to p…"

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