Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings …

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limb…

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.