How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.