Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.