Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

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