He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success. - Anthony Trollope

It was one of the tenets of her life — the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith — that this world is a world of woe; that wailing and suffering, if not gnashing of teeth, is and should be the condition of mankind preparatory to eternal bliss.

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.

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.