A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.