The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.