"She had gained a reputation for beauty,..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”

“And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.”

“I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.”

“If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.”

“Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.”

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”

“Success covers a multitude of blunders.”

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbor knows.Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?”