Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.