This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

We are so very 'umble.

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.