Chapter C: S. CALVERLEY, Fly Leaves

They may talk of the devotion of the sex, but the
most faithful attachment in life is that of a
woman in love--with herself.

_Damas_, in LORD LYTTON's _Lady of Lyons_.

They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
And how one ought never to think of one's self,
And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking--
My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!
How pleasant it is to have money!

_Spirit_, in A. H. CLOUGH's _Dipsychus_.

Women are generally consistent in their insincerity,
if in nothing else.

ANNA C. STEELE.

La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où
l'on n'a pas ri.

CHAMFORT, _Maximes_.

Oh, how can a modest young man
E'er hope for the smallest progression--
The profession's already so full
Of lawyers so full of profession?

JOHN GODFREY SAXE, _Poems_.

I was speaking [to Charles Lamb] of my first brief,
when he asked, "Did you not exclaim--
'Thou great first cause, least understood'?"

CRABB ROBINSON, _Diary_.

Eye-glass--a toy which enables a coxcomb to
see others, and others to see that he is a
coxcomb.

HORACE SMITH, _The Tin Trumpet_.

Some brag of telegraphs and rails,
Coals, steam, and gas, and a' that,
But rattling mails and cotton bales
Ne'er made a man for a' that;
For a' that, and a' that,
Their figures, facts, and a' that,
The first of facts is Thought, and what
High Thought begets, for a' that!

J. S. BLACKIE, _Musa Burschicosa_.

Virginia city--the wild young metropolis of the
new Silver State. Fortunes are made there in
a day. There are instances on record of young
men going to this place without a shilling--poor and
friendless--yet by energy, intelligence, and a careful
disregard to business, they have been enabled to leave
there, owing hundreds of pounds.