Sublime

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

Prerogative Office,

'If you're out upon the river pretty nigh every tide, and if you want to find a man or woman in the river, you'll greatly help your luck, Miss Abbey, by knocking a man or woman on the head aforehand and pitching 'em in.'

You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of incredibly ridiculous things, which a man is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, although all the time he feels foolish for doing so.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it… —Rudyard Kipling, If—

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

They belonged to that bastard class composed of rough people who have risen and intelligent people who have fallen, which lies between the so-called middle and lower classes and unites some of the faults of the latter with nearly all the vices of the former, without possessing the generous impulses of the worker or the respectability of the bourgeo

Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it’s the safe side for madness to dip on.