What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

There is no education like adversity.