Slander is the balm of malignity.
The sunset glow of self-possession.
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.