Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree. - Ernest Bramah

Alas! It is well written, "The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses."

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude – a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.