There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

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

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

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?