What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.