The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

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

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.

Not if I know myself at all.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!