If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And ne…

- Henry Sambrooke Leigh

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

- Henry Sambrooke Leigh

In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twi…

- Henry Sambrooke Leigh

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

- Henry Sambrooke Leigh

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spi…

- Henry Sambrooke Leigh