It should be placed on a bracket in the pier.

Nor is an old-fashioned silver ladle, nor a chased dinner-castor, nor a fine portly demijohn, nor anything, indeed, that savors of eating and drinking, bad to drive off the spleen.

But perhaps the best of all is a shelf of merrily-bound books, containing comedies, farces, songs, and humorous novels.

You need never open them; only have the titles in plain sight.

For this purpose, Peregrine Pickle is a good book; so is Gil Blas; so is Goldsmith.
But of all chamber furniture in the world, best calculated to cure a had temper, and breed a pleasant one, is the sight of a lovely wife.