Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world aint lawful tender for a loaf of bread. – Josh Billings
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers