I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

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

Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

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.