He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family’s eye?
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
The world meets nobody half way.
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself, – the most unwholesome of food.
The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
It is good to have friends at court.
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.