A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stran…

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.