If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.