"Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
- Charles Lamb
"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected."
"Man is a gaming animal."
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident."
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
"Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other."
"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."
"Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral."
"To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives."
"I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not oblig..."