Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels. - Anthony Trollope

Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.

The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum