Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.