In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.