I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.