Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?