If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.