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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There an't much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy, that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

WE know, Mr. Weller—we, who are men of the world—that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

It was a satisfactory thing to hear that the old gentleman was going to lead a new life, for it was pretty evident that his old one would not last him much longer.