Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.