There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort t… - Washington Irving

Острият език е единственото режещо оръжие, което става още по-остро от постояната му употреба.

I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.

He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers’; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.