Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.