Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.