He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.