Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.