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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

True love is better than glory.

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

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

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

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