I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.