No one here will ask whether you are out or at home; alone or with friends; here no Sabbatarian will investigate your Sundays, no censorious landlady will scrutinise your empty bottle, no valetudinarian neighbour will complain of late hours.

If you love books, to what place are books so suitable?
The whole spot is redolent of typography.

Would you worship the Paphian goddess, the groves of Cyprus are not more taciturn than those of the Temple.
Wit and wine are always here, and always together; the revels of the Temple are as those of polished Greece, where the wildest worshipper of Bacchus never forgot the dignity of the god whom he adored.

Where can retirement be so complete as here?
where can you be so sure of all the pleasures of society?
It was here that Tom Towers lived, and cultivated with eminent success the tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

But let it not be supposed that his chambers were such, or so comfortless, as are frequently the gaunt abodes of legal aspirants.