I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

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

Life is a joke that's just begun.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.