The sharp employ the sharp.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.