There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. - Anthony Trollope

The bishop did not whistle. We believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated; and that in these days one might as easily meet a corrupt judge as a whistling bishop; but he looked as though he would have done so, but for his apron.

Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.