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.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

It is good to have friends at court.

It is good to love the unknown.

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

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.