The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.