We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.