A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.