I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.