HERE'S folks born to property, and there's folks catch hold on it; and the law's made for them as catch hold.
Tommy Trounsem, in George Eliot's Felix Holt.
XAMINING one of the Sunday school boys at Addington, I asked him what a prophet was. He did not know. "If I were to tell you what would happen to you this day twelve month, and it should come to pass, what would you call me then, my little man?" "A fortune-teller, sir."
R. H. Barham, Diary.
OME take a lover, some take drams or prayers;
Some play the devil, and then write a novel.
Lord Byron, Don Juan.
