Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

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.'

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Not if I know myself at all.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!