He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

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.