Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination ….

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seawee….

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these ….

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful..

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode..

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner ….

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. Al….

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell m….

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other..

Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existen….

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant ….

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Circumstances beyond my individual control..

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might ….

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land bef….

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity..

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule..

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of bri….

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, ….

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!.