A Printer’s Toast — 481
At a printer’s festival the following sentiment was offered:—“Woman, second only to the press in the dissemination of news.”
Washington Irving — 482
Washington Irving’s characteristic was quiet humour; mild enough, but quaint; as when he said to a gentleman who, in a thunder-storm, declined to take shelter under a tree, having promised to his father, who had been once hit, never to do so: “Oh, that makes all the difference in the world. If it is hereditary, and lightning runs in the family, you are wise.”