Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slops.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Every rock in the ocean where a cormorant can perch is occupied by our troops — has a governor, deputy-governor, storekeeper, and deputy-storekeeper — and will soon have an archdeacon and a bishop. Military colleges, with thirty-four professors, educating seventeen ensigns per annum, being half an ensign for each professor, with every species of nonsense, athletic, sartorial, and plumigerous.