The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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.