He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.