His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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!
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Every savage can dance.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.