Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!