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.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

I am in love with this green Earth.