Who said “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”?

“Life is a horizontal fall.”

“Life loves the liver of it.”

“There is no wealth but life.”

“All of life is a foreign country.”

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”