The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Looking at the staircase, I could just see this lady in this grand dress walking down this staircase. It took my breath away.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show

The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu