Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!