Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.