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

"There are very few people, I imagine, who have not, at some time or other, been in love with some object or other."

"The poor are always with us, but they are not always with us in the same numbers."

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene l…"

"I am not a believer in the divine right of kings."