Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, in blast-beruffled plume.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.