Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

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

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.