As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

London; a nation, not a city.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.