Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.