Sublime

the dignity arose wholly and entirely out of the fidelity; and that the glamour merely came from the vow.

Rulers and reformers are a race of rather pedantic porters, always carrying an unknown present to an unknown person, not unfrequently (I fancy) the wrong present to the wrong person.

Pickwickian

I had never scorned a woman myself, but Pongo Twistleton once scorned an aunt of his, flatly refusing to meet her son Gerald at Paddington and give him lunch and see him off to school at Waterloo, and he never heard the end of it.

for a wood is a palace with a million corridors that cross each other everywhere.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;