Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

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

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.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

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.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.