Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them."
"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.