Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

I was quiet but I was not blind.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.