Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live.

A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very ha…

She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.