I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Are there no prisons?

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.