"The sun himself has never looked upon anything so ridiculous as this."

"I hope that real love and affection are long-lived. I hope that real love and affection are not easily chilled by absence, or killed by separation."

"I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England."

"He was a good-looking man, and a good-for-nothing man."

"He was a man who had seen the world, and knew what was what."