Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.