Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

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

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.