Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

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

Life is a joke that's just begun.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.