What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.