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.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

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.