The world meets nobody half way.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.