A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.