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!

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.